PROGRAM
Days: Wednesday, December 14th Thursday, December 15th Friday, December 16th
Wednesday, December 14th
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10:15-12:15 Session 2A: Agglomeration-1
Agglomeration of iron ore
Chair:
Location: Room number-21 (second floor VMCC)
10:15 | [Invited talk] Development in iron ore pelletizing for quality improvement (abstract) |
10:35 | [Invited talk] Development of a Polymeric Organic Binder for Coal Briquetting process for recycling in COREX Iron Making Technology (abstract) PRESENTER: Sirshendu Chattopadhyay |
10:55 | [Invited talk] Use of high Alumina Indian iron ore in making super fluxed sinter for high pellet BF operation (abstract) PRESENTER: Mrigandra Singhai |
11:15 | [Virtual mode] New Trends in Agglomeration Toward Next Generation Iron and Steel Making Technologies (abstract) PRESENTER: Elsayed Mousa |
11:30 | Processing of Iron Ores with High LOI for Pellet Making (abstract) PRESENTER: Rameshwar Sah |
11:45 | Sintering of low grade chromite fines for Ferrochrome production (abstract) PRESENTER: Dr. Sanjay Agarwal |
12:00 | Laboratory scale simulation of grate bar jamming of pallet car due to presence of Alkali in sinter feed mix by solid waste addition (abstract) PRESENTER: Dharmendra Kumar Rajak |
10:15-12:15 Session 2B: Fluid flow in steelmaking
Chair:
Location: Room number-22 (second floor VMCC)
10:15 | [Invited talk, virtual mode] Fluid flow simulation of an EAF with bottom gas injection comparing supersonic and coherent jets (abstract) |
10:35 | [Invited talk] Numerical simulation of temperature evolution in refractory side wall during the scrap melting in a lab-scale DC electric arc furnace (abstract) PRESENTER: Amarendra Kumar Singh |
10:55 | High-fidelity Multiscale Modelling and Simulation on Bubbles and Interface Behaviors for a Gas-Stirred Ladle (abstract) PRESENTER: Chris Pistorius |
11:10 | Modelling of Hydrodynamics and Mixing Phenomena in an Inductively Stirred Ladle (abstract) PRESENTER: Krishna Avatar |
11:25 | Modeling the effect of SEN design on fluid flow in thin-slab casting. (abstract) PRESENTER: Chandan Kumar |
11:40 | Effect of Internal Gas Injection in Various Shroud Geometry and Influence on Tundish Hydrodynamic Performance (abstract) PRESENTER: Abhinav Maurya |
10:15-12:15 Session 2C: Blast Furnace-1
Chair:
Location: Room number-23 (second floor VMCC)
10:15 | [Invited talk] Powder holdups in 2-D and 3-D packed beds with lateral and bottom injection of gas-powder (abstract) PRESENTER: Govind Sharan Gupta |
10:35 | [Invited talk] An experimental investigation of slugging phenomenon in 2D binary gas-solid tapered fluidized beds (abstract) PRESENTER: Sabita Sarkar |
10:55 | [Invited talk] Advancements in Blast Furnace Burden Distribution Control in Tata Steel (abstract) PRESENTER: Arijit Chakrabarty |
11:15 | Enhanced Hydrogen in Blast Furnace and Its Effect on Reduction Behavior of Iron Oxides (abstract) PRESENTER: Pritesh Garg |
11:30 | Productivity improvement of large Blast Furnace (4554 m3) at Jindal Steel and Power Angul, India (abstract) PRESENTER: Ritesh Mishra |
11:45 | [Cancelled] Ferrous Burden Performance for Reduction and Degradation using Advanced Experiment and Characterization Methods (abstract) |
12:00 | [Cancelled] Development of Scaled-Down Pulverized Coal Combustor to replicate Raceway conditions of Blast furnace through numerical simulations (abstract) |
14:00-14:45 Session 3: Plenary Talk-1 (Uttam Singh)
Plenary talk
Chair:
Location: VMCC Main (Nag) Auditorium
14:00 | Transformation in Ironmaking, Tata Steel: A Journey of Last 10 Years (abstract) |
15:00-15:45 Session 4A: Agglomeration-2
Chair:
Location: Room number-21 (second floor VMCC)
15:00 | [Invited talk] Agglomeration of iron and steel making residues using organic binders (abstract) PRESENTER: Hesham Ahmed |
15:20 | Studies on Mechanical and Metallurgical characteristics of Fluxed Composite Pre Reduced pellets made with high ash coal (abstract) PRESENTER: Avash Kumar Saha |
15:35 | Development of an Automated Property Prediction System for Iron-ore Agglomeration Processes (abstract) |
15:00-15:45 Session 4B: Optimization
Chair:
Location: Room number-22 (second floor VMCC)
15:00 | A Candid Perspective from a Highly Productive, Modern Mini-Mill: Fundamentals of Value-In-Use Modelling and Optimization of Raw Materials (Scrap, Pig Iron and HBI) (abstract) PRESENTER: Kamalesh Mandal |
15:20 | Optimization of Reagents Consumption in hot metal Desulphurisation (abstract) PRESENTER: Aditya Nema |
15:35 | Integrated Process Optimization strategy at LFs to reduce energy consumption and superheat delays (abstract) PRESENTER: Gaurav Kumar |
15:00-15:45 Session 4C: Casting and Solidification-1
Chair:
Location: Room number-23 (second floor VMCC)
15:00 | Sliver defects in low carbon Nb-V-Ti microalloyed steel caused by edge crack in continuous cast slab (abstract) PRESENTER: Santosh Kumar |
15:15 | Use Of Mould Heat Flux As A Tool To Prevent Off Corner Longitudinal Breakouts in Slab Casters (abstract) PRESENTER: Rajeev Kumar Singh |
15:30 | Hydrogen behaviour in continuously cast and hot rolled low alloy steels (abstract) PRESENTER: M. Vidhyasagar |
16:00-17:30 Session 5A: Coal and coke
Chair:
Location: Room number-21 (second floor VMCC)
16:00 | Studies on increasing utilization of Indian high ash coal in coke oven (abstract) PRESENTER: Kashi Nath Malik |
16:15 | Study on push force measurement technique and operational difficulties in stamp charge coke making (abstract) PRESENTER: Deepak Kumar |
16:30 | Recycling of Waste Plastics in Coke Ovens (abstract) PRESENTER: Mrunmaya Pasupalak |
16:00-17:30 Session 5B: Primary Steelmaking
Chair:
Location: Room number-22 (second floor VMCC)
16:00 | [Invited talk] Slag conductivity and it’s effect on Oxygen Transport and interfacial reaction kinetics (abstract) PRESENTER: Jayasree Biswas |
16:20 | [Invited talk] A Study on Altering Flux in BOF Steelmaking and Its Impact on Sustainability (abstract) PRESENTER: Tapas Kumar Roy |
16:40 | Study of Slag Formation and Foaming in Early Stages of Direct Reduced Iron (DRI)-Hot Metal (HM) based Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) Operation (abstract) PRESENTER: Sumanta Maji |
16:55 | Effect of CaO content on crystallization behavior of EAF slag under different cooling environment (abstract) PRESENTER: Sheshang Singh Chandel |
17:10 | Investigating the melting behavior of a CaO-MnO-SiO2-Al2O3 flux for use in fusion welding of low carbon steel (abstract) PRESENTER: Sree Lakshmi Aditya Gowravaram |
17:25 | Injection of Plastics in Electric Arc Furnace (abstract) PRESENTER: Mukund Manish |
16:00-17:30 Session 5C: Ladle refining
Chair:
Location: Room number-23 (second floor VMCC)
16:00 | Influence of Slag Carryover on the Non-Metallic Inclusion and Magnetic Property in Electrical Steel (abstract) |
16:15 | Application of FactSage based kinetic process model to diagnose ladle refining process for controlling impurity concentration in liquid steel (abstract) PRESENTER: Sk Wasim Haidar |
16:30 | thermodynamic and kinetic based process simulation of Ladle refining process (LF) and validation with plant data (abstract) PRESENTER: Manas Paliwal |
16:45 | Improving Titanium Recovery during Ladle Furnace Steelmaking (abstract) PRESENTER: Albin Rozario |
17:00 | [Cancelled] Ingenious silico-thermic chemical heating for high quality low aluminum grade electrical steels (abstract) |
17:15 | [Cancelled] Reduction in nitrogen absorption in HSLA steels during electrical arcing process by increasing nitride capacity of slag (abstract) |
17:30 | Dynamic Model Based upon Multiple Reactors Approach (abstract) PRESENTER: Prasenjit Singha |
Thursday, December 15th
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09:00-09:45 Session 6: Plenary Talk-2 (P. Chris Pistorius)
Chair:
Location: VMCC Main (Nag) Auditorium
09:00 | [Plenary talk] Improving inclusion analysis with simulation (abstract) |
10:00-11:30 Session 7A: Agglomeration-3
Chair:
Location: Room number-21 (second floor VMCC)
10:00 | Pelletizing of magnetite in the fossil-free iron production. (abstract) PRESENTER: Charlotte Andersson |
10:20 | [Invited talk] Challenges in Making Quality Agglomerates using Lean Iron Ores for Sustainable Iron making (abstract) |
10:40 | Effect of different sources of carbon in hematite ore pellet (abstract) PRESENTER: Ammasi Ayyandurai |
10:55 | Influence of load or pressure on rate of sintering during induration of magnetite pellet (abstract) PRESENTER: Nurni N Viswanathan |
11:10 | Effect of PVA addition as a binder on the iron ore pellet properties (abstract) |
10:00-11:30 Session 7B: Clean Steel Production-1
Chair:
Location: Room number-22 (second floor VMCC)
10:00 | [Invited talk, virtual mode] Advanced methods for studying non-metallic inclusion evolution (abstract) |
10:20 | Effect of de-oxidation and slag composition on inclusion evolution and cleanliness in bearing steels (abstract) |
10:35 | Quality improvement in high carbon eutectoid grade steel wire rods for tire cord application (abstract) PRESENTER: Mallikarjuna Rao P |
10:50 | Technological Advancement in Calcium Treatment for Clean Steelmaking (abstract) PRESENTER: Somnath Ghosh |
11:05 | [Virtual mode] Inclusion agglomeration - a key issue contributing to ‘Inclusion Engineering’ in advanced steels (abstract) PRESENTER: Wangzhong Mu |
11:20 | Effect of Si & Al Addition on Characterization of Inclusions in Al-killed High-Si Steel (abstract) PRESENTER: Dong Woon Kim |
10:00-11:30 Session 7C: Digitalization in steel industry-1
Chair:
Location: Room number-23 (second floor VMCC)
10:00 | [Invited talk] Digitalization in Steel Industry – Complementary roles of Artificial Intelligence & Classical Modelling (abstract) |
10:20 | Prediction of Roughing Mill Exit Temperature using Advanced Analytics (abstract) PRESENTER: Pushkar Verma |
10:35 | Leveraging Advanced Data Analytics to Optimize Process at F-BF TATA Steel (abstract) |
10:50 | An ICME Framework for Design of Hot-rolled Nb,Ti Microalloyed Steels (abstract) PRESENTER: Surya Ardham |
11:05 | Prediction of Longitudinal Facial Cracks on Slab Surface using Advanced Analytics (abstract) |
11:45-13:00 Session 8A: Casting and Solidification-2
Chair:
Location: Room number-21 (second floor VMCC)
11:45 | [Invited talk] New Fiber Optic Sensor Developments for Applications in Steel Manufacture (abstract) |
12:05 | [Invited talk] Elimination of Edge Transverse Cracks in Low Carbon Micro-alloyed Grade Slabs at Tata Steel Meramandali Works (abstract) |
12:25 | DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINUOUS TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT IN A CONTINUOUS CASTING MACHINE AND THE PROCESS, PRACTICE AND BENEFITS OF DYNAMIC SUPERHEAT CONTROL (abstract) |
12:40 | Effect of secondary cooling on bulging deformation and internal crack formation in continuously cast steel mini slabs. (abstract) PRESENTER: Koushik Ray |
12:55 | Evaluation of longitudinal cracks through coupled fluid flow, heat transfer and thermo-mechanical modelling approach in a thin slab caster (abstract) PRESENTER: Aditya Swain |
11:45-13:00 Session 8B: Blast furnace-2
Chair:
Location: Room number-22 (second floor VMCC)
11:45 | Computational approach to estimate the remnant thickness of hearth refractory lining of Blast furnace (abstract) PRESENTER: Sujit Anandrao Jagnade |
12:00 | An investigation of multiphase flows through a packed bed with implications for iron-making blast furnaces (abstract) |
12:15 | [Cancelled] Novel systems to measure and visualize internal process details of Blast Furnace Top (abstract) |
12:30 | [Cancelled] Numerical Evaluation of Blast Furnace Trough to Improve Campaign Life (abstract) |
12:45 | A modified bubble-based EMMS drag model for studying the hydrodynamics of a 2D gas-solid tapered fluidized bed (abstract) PRESENTER: Lipak Kumar Sahoo |
11:45-13:00 Session 8C: Refractories and fluxes
Chair:
Location: Room number-23 (second floor VMCC)
11:45 | Inter-diffusion studies in the (Fe,Mg)O system for studying the interactions between Fe and FeO with MgO-C refractories under flash ironmaking conditions (abstract) PRESENTER: Rahul Sarkar |
12:00 | Development of Calcium Magnesium Aluminates in Refractory Applications (abstract) PRESENTER: Goutam Bhattacharya |
12:15 | An Innovative Desulphurization Solution by JAMIPOL Eliminates Magnesium (abstract) |
12:30 | Refining Studies for Steel Making in Induction Furnace (abstract) PRESENTER: Ammasi Ayyandurai |
12:45 | Present trends in use of Tundish Fluxes to improve steel productivity (abstract) |
14:00-14:45 Session 9: Plenary Talk-3 (Joohyun Park and Dong-Joon Min)
Chair:
Location: VMCC Main (Nag) Auditorium
14:00 | Slag design for producing high-clean steels: From fundamental knowledge to industrial applications (abstract) PRESENTER: Joohyun Park |
15:00-16:00 Session 10: Panel Discussion-1: Digitalization of Steel Industries
Location: VMCC Main (Nag) Auditorium
15:00 | Digitalization of Steel Industries (abstract) |
16:15-17:30 Session 11A: Solid state ironmaking processes
Chair:
Location: Room number-21 (second floor VMCC)
16:15 | [Invited talk] Hydrogen reduction of low-grade banded ion ores (abstract) |
16:35 | Carbothermic reduction and kinetics of a lean grade multimetallic magnetite ore (abstract) PRESENTER: Biswajit Mishra |
16:50 | Reduction kinetics of fluxed iron ore pellets made from coarse iron ore particles (abstract) PRESENTER: Amit Kumar Singh |
16:15-17:30 Session 11B: Mathematical Modeling
Chair:
Location: Room number-22 (second floor VMCC)
16:15 | 50+ YEARS OF MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF STEELMAKING AND CASTING PROCESSES: ADVANCEMENTS AND UNSCALED FRONTIERS (abstract) |
16:35 | Physical and Mathematical Modeling of Microbubble Formation in Liquid Metals using Rotational Shearing and Induced Turbulence (abstract) PRESENTER: Rohit Tiwari |
16:50 | Effect of in-mold electromagnetic stirring on solidification and inclusion behavior (abstract) PRESENTER: Pradeep Kumar Jha |
17:05 | Insights on multiphase treatment towards modeling the fluid dynamics of gas-stirred baths (abstract) PRESENTER: Rishikesh Mishra |
16:15-17:30 Session 11C: Clean Steel Production-2
Chair:
Location: Room number-23 (second floor VMCC)
16:15 | [Invited talk] Evolution behavior of inclusion composition in Al-killed steel during LF-RH process (abstract) |
16:35 | Effect of flux composition on refining and reoxidation behavior of Si-killed stainless steel during ladle and tundish metallurgy (abstract) PRESENTER: Shengchao Duan |
16:50 | Electron microscopy solutions for Characterization of complex inclusions in steel (abstract) PRESENTER: Karthick Balasubramanian |
17:05 | Manufacturing a high-clean Fe-Cr-Ni-Mn-Co system alloy by slag treatment with ferroalloys feedstock (abstract) PRESENTER: Shengchao Duan |
17:20 | [Virtual mode] Inclusions evolution in Fe-22Mn-xAl-0.6C motlen steel and contacting with double-saturated molten slag (abstract) PRESENTER: Jinglong Wang |
Friday, December 16th
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09:00-09:45 Session 12: Plenary Talk-4 (Shigeru Ueda)
Chair:
Location: VMCC Main (Nag) Auditorium
09:00 | [Plenary talk] Fundamentals Study of Slag Property Control for CO2 Emission Reduction in Iron and Steelmaking (abstract) |
10:00-11:30 Session 13A: Fundamentals of Ironmaking and Steelmaking
Chair:
Location: Room number-21 (second floor VMCC)
10:00 | [Invited talk] Simultaneous Analysis of Soluble and Insoluble Oxygen Contents in Steel: Concept, Thermodynamic Basis, and Applications to Al-killed Steel (abstract) PRESENTER: Youn-Bae Kang |
10:20 | [Invited talk] Microscopic reaction mechanism of the CaO-based slag formation in the steelmaking process (abstract) PRESENTER: Hiroyuki Matsuura |
10:40 | [Invited talk] Hot stage engineering of BOF slag with Al2O3 additions (abstract) PRESENTER: Annelies Malfliet |
11:00 | Hematite Ore Decomposition at Particle Scale (abstract) PRESENTER: Raja Ankit Anand |
11:15 | Si-O deoxidation equilibria in liquid steel (abstract) PRESENTER: Sanjay Pindar |
10:00-11:30 Session 13B: Decarbonization
Chair:
Location: Room number-22 (second floor VMCC)
10:00 | RHF-EAF A Sustainable Route of Steelmaking: An Exergy Analysis (abstract) PRESENTER: Gour Gopal Roy |
10:20 | [Invited talk] Methodology for Developing Strategic Roadmap for Reducing Energy Consumption and CO2 Emission for Iron and Steel Plants (abstract) PRESENTER: Sunil Kumar |
10:40 | Towards Green Steel Production for Indian Context (abstract) |
10:55 | Continuing the Decarbonizing Initiatives using Induction Furnaces for a Sustainable Clean Steel Production (abstract) PRESENTER: Prakash Chaubal |
10:00-11:30 Session 13C: Digitalization in steel industry-2
Chair:
Location: Room number-23 (second floor VMCC)
10:00 | Efficient Method of Suggesting Alternate Grades using Machine Learning for Steelmaking Plant (abstract) PRESENTER: Aditya Nema |
10:15 | Optimization of the blast furnace ironmaking process using machine learning and genetic algorithms (abstract) PRESENTER: Sri Harsha Nistala |
10:30 | Sticker type breakout detection using machine learning (abstract) PRESENTER: Gaurav Srivastava |
10:45 | Application of Ordinal Logistic Regression for Quality Improvement of Continuously Cast Steel Billets (abstract) PRESENTER: Saad Al-Motham |
11:00 | Key Elements of Hot Strip Mill Automation to achieve Critical to Quality Parameters in Hot Rolled Steel (abstract) PRESENTER: Ramji R |
11:45-13:00 Session 14A: Process modeling
Chair:
Location: Room number-21 (second floor VMCC)
11:45 | Descriptive modelling of the HIsarna process (abstract) PRESENTER: Dharm Jeet Gavel |
12:00 | A thermodynamic based process model for predicting the slag path in Blast furnace operation along with validation from plant data (abstract) |
12:15 | Some examples of applications of commercial thermodynamic packages for steelmaking research (abstract) |
12:35 | Role of ladle glaze on inclusion composition in low carbon aluminum killed steel (abstract) PRESENTER: Merajul Haque Ansari |
11:45-13:00 Session 14B: Data analytics
Location: Room number-22 (second floor VMCC)
11:45 | A soft sensor for measuring width in the Hot Strip Mill (abstract) PRESENTER: Pushkar Verma |
12:00 | Sampling Strategy & Prediction of Bubble Sauter Mean Diameter in a Continuous Casting Mold using Machine Learning (abstract) PRESENTER: Soumitra Kumar Dinda |
12:15 | Blast furnace heat loss root cause diagnosis using deep learning (abstract) PRESENTER: Pooja Sabnani |
12:30 | Optimization of Coke oven heating using Machine Learning Approach (abstract) PRESENTER: Sujit Anandrao Jagnade |
11:45-13:00 Session 14C: Towards sustainable steel production
Chair:
Location: Room number-23 (second floor VMCC)
11:45 | Carbon flow and CO2 emission for induction furnace steelmaking (abstract) |
12:05 | A novel process of producing liquid iron using microwaves (abstract) |
12:20 | Improvement of Hole Expansion Ratio in Hot Rolled 590MPa Steel by Reengineering the Microstructure (abstract) |
12:35 | Converting Steel Slag into Construction Sand (abstract) PRESENTER: Dhiren Panda |
12:50 | Reducing Oxidized Bath in Energy Optimizing Furnace (abstract) |
14:00-14:45 Session 15: Plenary Talk-5 (Rong Zhu)
Chair:
Location: VMCC Main (Nag) Auditorium
14:00 | [Plenary talk, virtual mode] CO2 capture and utilization in steel making process (abstract) PRESENTER: Haijuan Wang |
15:00-16:00 Session 16: Panel Discussion-2: Decarbonization of steel industry
Location: VMCC Main (Nag) Auditorium
15:00 | Decarbonization of Steel Industries (abstract) |